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Re: speeding up a paste operation
- From: James Darnley <james dot darnley at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 01:43:23 +0200
- Subject: Re: speeding up a paste operation
- References: <CAD8GWstSbJHnP3XWKvhbtRisB=jJL7SJA9aMOWMJVDbMC_VdYA@mail.gmail.com>
On 2018-08-25 01:30, Lee wrote:
> In retrospect, I should have created the file some other way, but still..
> - grab the top 1M hosts from from
> http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/umbrella-static/index.html
> - open w/ libreoffice
> - select the host name column, right click & select copy (all 1 million lines)
> - (mintty 2.9.0 window already open) vi /tmp/hosts
> - i (get into insert mode)
> - right click (which I have set to "paste")
>
> data is still scrolling by & it's not even up to 100K lines yet :(
>
> Is there some way to make a paste operation faster in mintty (or vim
> or whatever the slowpoke is)?
There's a utility called getclip which put the clipboard onto stdout.
Direct that into a file and you should get the same result, excluding
Vim's indentation. Probably doesn't use the tty in anyway.
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